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So: "_____ is no big deal because _____ did it too." How far should we take this.... - The Atlantic slave trade is no big deal because the Arabs did it too.
by ChrisNorstrom 10y ago
So: "_____ is no big deal because _____ did it too."
How far should we take this....
- The Atlantic slave trade is no big deal because the Arabs did it too.
- Slavery in general is no big deal because Africans, Egyptians, Middle East Muslims, did it too.
- The Colonization of Africa is ok because the middle east Muslims, did it too.
- Making homosexuality illegal is ok because 30+ African countries did it too.
- Communism is ok because Cuba, North Korea, Germany, China, Vietnam, Bulgaria, USSR, etc... did it too.
- Rape and abuse of women is no big deal because, gosh everyone did it too.
So...what now, it's hypocritical of us to try to stop something bad from happening because a long time ago we did the same? Well then hell, lets just go back to the stone age. Screw law and civility.
- chillacy 10y agoI think you're oversimplifying. None of those things are actually a necessity to becoming an economic powerhouse. Intellectual Property is a construct which exists to protect the creations of the incumbents, and more often than not, people get ahead by ignoring that construct until they have enough to suddenly care. I'm merely pointing out that those with IP crying foul is the historical norm, and I'll extrapolate 30 years into the future when China has enough IP to complain about other industrializing countries "stealing" their inventions.